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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



[Bull. 196 



FREE TRANSLATION 



On February 17 we met in Wolf town, I asked Tsa:li Ga.-hwi.-li, 

 and he told me: "This I told Tsd:n(i)Ia:tsi, that I was going to be 

 passing by Wolftown, and he said, 'I lent Wahhyani:da some money — 

 one dollar. You must bring it by if he has it.' I told him," said 

 Tsa:li Ga:hwi:H. "1 did not give him the paper that the clerk gave 

 me. When you see Wahhyani:da, tell him what I said," he said. 



I, Ino:li the clerk, the one who watches all that happens here in 

 Wolftown and all those who live here in the towns in the Cherokee 

 country. 



This is all I, Inodi, just wrote. 



1858 



COMMENTARY 



Apparently /no /Zt wanted no part in the negotiations concerning 

 the strictly private debt referred to above. His typically Cherokeean 

 play upon the word a:gwagh(a)sa:di has him saying in effect: "I, who 

 am the agh(a)dhi:ya (treasurer, tax-collector, which he was) am 

 now expected to a:gwagh(a)sa:sdi (to exercise the function of treasurer, 

 tax-collector) in every private debt in the whole Cherokee country." 



"Wolftown Council 1858 WW," is Mooney's annotation. 



NO. 18.— THE CLERK WARNS DEBTORS 



(first notation) 



s' In the manuscript there is a superfluous final le. 



2S The meaning of this proper name is unknown. It is possibly a transfer into C herokec of a White name. 



»« 'Maggie.' 



30 The meaning of this proper name is unknown. See footnote 21, p. 62. 



